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Why is the word "democracy" not in the preamble of the US Constitution?

Last Updated: 16.06.2025 14:38

Why is the word "democracy" not in the preamble of the US Constitution?

—Thomas Jefferson

To slaves: “You can forget your notions of freedom. We voted fair and square and your side lost.”

To Indians: “Pack up what belongings you can carry and start walking to Oklahoma. Your fertile lands are ours now. We voted fair and square and your side lost.”

Why do flat earthers think using globetrotter, globetard, and other insults will make the educated arguer fall for the silly flat-earth belief?

[with republicanism being the rights-protecting form of governance afforded us by our Constitution]

To blacks: “You can’t drink from that water fountain… eat in this cafeteria… ride this bus… go to this school. We voted fair and square and your side lost.

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons.

How many of you have had your parental rights taken away because of lies and no truth whatsoever, and did you prove the lies that were told about you to be false either through drug testing or another way, but still had your rights taken?

Why? Try these on for size:

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

Can trans people tell me what the criteria for a woman is excluding self identification (facts do not rely on self belief)?

In other words, our Founding Fathers and other Whig intellects of that time well understood that democratic methods are the surefire means to do serious damage to the rights guaranteed under republican self-government.

Meanwhile, when the Democratic Party formed in 1828, it was with a Tory outlook keen on robbing others of their rights:

Majority-rules democracy is the way that majorities run roughshod over minorities, destroying rights and all ideas of equality under the law. No fair-minded person wants anything to do with democracy.

What's a memory from your childhood that shaped who you are today?

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

—Benjamin Franklin

—Alexis de Tocqueville

What are the top 5 star Michelin restaurants near Pompano Beach, Florida?

—John Adams